Scientists have characterized "Chapare arenavirus," a previously unrecognized arenavirus, discovered in serum samples from a patient in rural Bolivia who eventually died of the infection. Named after ...

A team of Bolivian health authorities, U.S. Navy health experts based in Lima, Peru, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has characterized “Chapare arenavirus,” a previously ...

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have discovered that combining key vaccine ingredients could give the body the tools it needs to fight the entire family of arenaviruses with a ...

Effective treatment of advanced tumours remains a major challenge because of limited availability of tumour-specific agents and development of drug resistance. Next to chemotherapy and targeted ...

Intralesional nivolumab in oral potentially malignant disorders: A phase 1 pilot study on safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy. A phase II trial of neoadjuvant docetaxel/5-FU/cisplatin in ...

Snakes, just like every other organism, are susceptible to terrible diseases. Captive pythons and boas commonly become afflicted with "inclusion body disease" (IBD) that is characterized by pinkish ...

New research has uncovered a protein enabling the replication of arenaviruses, pathogens now widespread in West Africa that are carried by rodents and can infect humans with lethal fevers. The ...

May 28, 2009—Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases of National Health Laboratory Service (NICD-NHLS), the ...

In a recent study published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, a team of researchers reported the detection of arenavirus ribonucleic ...